RALPH W. HARBISON
PRESIDENT

CLEVELAND E. DODGE
CHAIRMAN INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE

WILLIAM E. SPEERS

CHAIRMAN NATIONAL BOARD

JAMES M. SPEERS

JOHN E. MANLEY
GENERAL SECRETARY

THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS

LEWIS A. DICK
PRESIDENT AREA COUNCIL

DEAN E. SHAFFER
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CORPORATE NAME

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS

A. L. MAYER
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY

H. W. BOLTZ
ASSOCIATE SECRETARY

FRANK B. PARKER : OFFICE OF LEO L. GESSELL
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
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CHAIRMAN AREA BOARD 114 EAST NINTH ST. wags te ARicescn SECRETARY
E. E. CORDRY TOPEKA, KANSAS FRED S. JARVIS

RECORDING SECRETARY
ASSOCIATE HI-Y SECRETARY
RAY E. NORMAN

ASST. RECORDING SECRETARY CHARLES SCHWIESO, JR.

SECRETARY, ROCKY MOUNTAIN

PAUL B. SWEET Sept < 24 > 1940 STUDENT COUNCIL
TREASURER
: FERN BABCOCK
DR. A. F. TYLER SECRETARY, SOUTHWEST
ASSISTANT TREASURER STUDENT COUNCIL

Dr. F. ©, Allen,
University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas,

Dear Dr. Allen:

Your name has been given as reference by Mr, Chester Eugene Haynes,
He desires to enter YMCA work, In order to be sure that he has

the qualifications necessary to grow, assume larse responsibilities
and make a life work out of such relationships, we need to have

your opinion as to his qualities, Will you give them on the
enclosed form. If you do not know him sufficiently weil to handle
it in this detailed manner please write me quite specifically about
your relationship to him, your knowledge of his work and personality
and your judgment about his growing future,

Very sincerely,

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A. L. Maver “